The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-29
MANY LIVES LOST.
Awful Record Of Disasters in Va
rious Parts Of the World.
Storms, Shipwreclxs and Fires Swell the
Already Large Number of Fatalities
This Year-The Uncertainty Of
Life Vividly Portrayed.
NUMEROUS CASUALTIES.

FoxBURG, Pa, Oct 10.-A slkiff contain
ing six men was capsized in the Allegheny
river Monday, and two brothers, j. and lei.
Neville, were drowned. The others managed
to keep up until reached. ..
NEW YORK, Oct 19.-An unfinished school
building attached to the Church of Our LADY
OF Mount Carmel, on East One Hundred and
Fifteenth street, fell with crash Monday
while score OF men were at work in the
building under the supervision of Dr. A. e.
Kerner, the priest in charge. Five men
were killed outright and ten were more or
less badly injured. The casualty was due
to bad work, hastily and ignorantly done.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 10. - Additional
details OF the disastrous fire at Hankow re-
ceived by advices per steamship Rio de ia
neir yesterday morning give the number of
lives lost as 1000, and the value of the
property destroyed a1loat and ashore at g.
100000 taels.
LAKE EDWARD, Que, Oct. 19-Robert
Nells' boarding house was burned at mid
night Sunday. Three Of the boarders,
Thomas Landus, of Norton Mills, William
Buchan, OF Little River, and George Scot
ton, OF California, We're burned to crisp.
PEABODY, Mass, Oct. 1S.-The house of
James O'Connell, in this city, was burned
yesterday, and two of his children, James,
aged 4, and Mary, aged 2 years, We're suffo-
Gated. .
GLOUCESTER, Mass Oct 19-The schooner
Herman Banson arrived from the Grand
Banks yesterday. Captain Lawson reports
that September 80 he fell in with the
French fishing sloop St. Pierre, of st. Pierre.
lie boarded her and found ten men
drowned in the cabin. The weather being
hn Fl
her Oh recover the bodies
WASHINGTON, Oct 10. - Rear-Admiral
Braine, commanding the South Atlantic
squadron, reports to the Navy Department
that September 8 the Brazilian cruiser I'M
perial Marinbeiro was lost by running upon
q bar at Rio Doce. One officer and fourteen
seamen were lost. One hundred and twen-
ty-six persons were saved
RoNK's STATION, Pa, Oct. 2O.-At a cross
ing near here Tuesday a buggy containing
Hrs. Jacob Stelzfus and Mrs. Barbara Stelz-
ius was struck by train, and both women
We're killed
PEov1NcETowN, Mass, Oct 19.-A schoon-
er which arrived yesterday reports the loss
OF the fishing schooner Rebecca Nickerson
on the banks. with her crew of nineteen
men. All the rest OF the fleet have returned
safely.
WooDLAWN, Neb, Oct 21.-Two freight
trains collided here on the Burlington road,
early Wednesday; the cars were wrecked
and took he, being completely consumed.
Brakeman Isaac Davenport was caught in
the debris, and to save him from cremation,
fellow trainman chopped Off his impris-
oned leg: The shock proved too much for
Davenport, who died in few hours
LONDON, Oct: 21.-The steamer Upupa
collitied with and sunk the German bark
Planteur, Off Be0chy Head, off the south
coast OF England, on Tuesday. Eleven per-
sons were drowned, and the captain of the
bark has since died Only two of the crew
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MELBOURNE, Oct 21-The Colonial pas
senger steamer Cheviot has been wrecked
at Port Phillip Many Of the passengers
and crew were drowned. The remainder
have arrived at Melbourne.
ST. ALBANs, W. Va, Oct ola defective
switch was the cause of an accident here to
a fast express bound west on the Chesa-
peake g. Ohio railroad yesterday, by which
twenty-sx passengers were more or less i'll
ju cd, four probably fatally.
GREERs, S. c., Oct 21.-Ncar this place
y ;s5erday, freight and passenger trains col
lided, and the engineer of the passenger
and woman were killed and ten persons
Q wounded, of whom four OF five We're
not cXpecte1 10 survive.